On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 09:20, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > > etc. I put that extra number after dropped and not at the end > > so prevent it > > > being off the end of a 32 character name. > > > > > > > Alternatively, we could invest a lot of work to make it possible for > > > > attname to be NULL, but I don't see the payoff... > > > > > > Yeah, I think a weird name should be good enough... > > > > perhaps starting it with spaces instead of _ would make it even harder > > to write by accident, so tha name could be > > " dropped 0000000001" > > > > or to make it even more self documenting store the drop time, > > " col001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > -------------------------------- > > Well, are there characters that are illegal in column names that I could > use? I did a quick check and couldn't find any!
I guess that \0 would be unusable (not sure if its illegal) \r \n and \t (and others < 0x20) are probably quite unlikely too. -------------- Hannu ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
